Wit Will Shine Through The Harsh Cadence

Self-defense Is Nature's Eldest Law.

But Dying Is A Pleasure / When Living Is A Pain.

Want Is A Bitter And A Hateful Good, Because Its Virtues Are Not Understood; Yet Many Things, Impossible To Thought, Have Been By Need To Full Perfection Brought. The Daring Of The Soul Proceeds From Thence, Sharpness Of Wit, And Active Diligence; Prudence At Once, And Fortitude It Gives; And, If In Patience Taken, Mends Our Lives.

Men's Virtues I Have Commended As Freely As I Have Taxed Their Crimes.

If One Must Be Rejected, One Succeed, Make Him My Lord Within Whose Faithful Breast Is Fixed My Image, And Who Loves Me Best.